How I Came to Sparkle Again
By Kaya McLaren
Publication Date: October 2

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Set in a Colorado ski town, this remarkable breakout novel
chronicles three people and their journey from loss to love; heartbreak
to hope.

Jill Anthony spent her young adulthood in
the ski town of Sparkle, Colorado. But more than a decade has passed
since she left when, only weeks after a very late miscarriage, she
finds her husband in bed with another woman, she flees Austin, Texas
for the town she knows: Sparkle.

Lisa Carlucci wakes up one
morning after another night of meaningless sex, looks in the mirror and
realizes that she no longer wants to treat her body like a Holiday Inn.
She’s going to hold out for love. The only problem is, love might come
in the form of her ski bum best friend, who lives next door with his
ski bum friends in a trailer known as “the Kennel.”

Cassie
Jones, at age ten, has lost her mother to cancer and no longer believes
in anything anymore. She knows her father is desperately worried about
her, and she constantly looks for messages from her deceased mother
through the heart-shaped rocks they once collected in the streams and
hills of Sparkle.

Three people at the crossroads of heartbreak
and healing. Three lives that will be changed one winter in Sparkle.
One tender, funny, tear-jerking novel you won’t soon forget.

"In the olive grove, you've got to be wise in the feet and wild in the
head." At the heart of this beautiful debut novel are five generations of firstborn Keller women who live in
the same house on an olive grove in secluded northern California.
Matriarch Anna is 112 and trying to be the oldest woman in the world -
and succeeding heartily. Her daughter Bets, granddaughter Callie,
great-granddaughter Deb, and great-great granddaughter Erin are also
defying the limits imposed on our lives. When a geneticist comes to
study these marvel of longevity, Erin announces she is pregnant with a
firstborn boy and the Keller women's world is blown wide open. The
family's lives, tied so closely with the land and the olive trees, are
richly evoked with memories echoing across generations. Told in turn
through the perspective of each of the women, the mystery of their
existence is revealed in rich, compassionate writing that will remain a
treasure across the generations.

Glory Vigil, newly married, unexpectedly pregnant at 41, is
nesting in the home she and her husband, Joseph, have just moved to in
Santa Fe, a house that unbeknownst to them is rumored to have a
resident ghost. Their adopted daughter, Juniper, is home from college
for Thanksgiving and in love for the very first time, quickly learning
how a relationship changes everything. But Juniper has a tiny arrow
lodged in her heart, a leftover shard from the day eight years earlier
when her sister, Casey, disappeared—in a time before she’d ever met
Glory and Joseph. When a fieldwork course takes Juniper to a pueblo
only a few hours away, she finds herself right back in the past she
thought she’d finally buried.

Silver has begun to accept that life isn’t going to turn out as he
expected. His ex-wife is about to marry a terrific guy Silver can’t
quite bring himself to hate. And his Princeton-bound teenage daughter
Casey has just confided in him that she’s pregnant—because he’s the one
she cares least about letting down.

With the wedding looming and Casey
in crisis, this broken family struggles, bonds, and comes together only
to risk damaging each other even more. Lives begin anew, change
radically, or in Silver’s case—as he discovers that he could die at any
moment without an operation he refuses to have—may be about to end in
an instant.

Carmen wishes Jobe, the husband she never loved, dead --only to fall in
love with him after he is gone. As she helps her three children grieve,
she discovers, after a tryst with her most recent lover, that her own
life may be in danger. Her emotions reeling, Carmen reflects on the
fateful days of her youth that made her the person she has become:
privileged suburban wife, unfaithful widow, mother of a child with Down
syndrome, fierce friend. The Forever Marriage is at its heart a
mystery, and the mystery is what, exactly, the nature of Carmen and
Jobe's marriage might have been. Page-turning and irreverent, The Forever Marriage is
a compelling examination of a relationship and of a woman facing up to
her imperfect past. It merits comparison to the best work of Anne Tyler,
Elizabeth Berg, and Alice Sebold.